Water arobics
RNY on 06/27/12
Is any one doing water arobics as there exericze routine, tell me what you are doing?
I did water arobics for a little while after surgery. Currently I don't do anything. My back is so bad that I can't really do much at all now. I used to walk but now I can only go very short distances without severe pain. Just walking slowly around the grocery story is very painful for me. So currently, I really do have a good reason not to exercise.
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I do water aerobics 5 times a week and love it (my favorite part is the hot tub afterwards). I started in February along with a diet the surgeon put me on and so far, I have lost 80 pounds, I added cycling on a recumbant bike last month when the weight loss started slowing down and am back to about a pound a day. I am waiting for approval from the hospital now and then should be having my surgery (soon I pray).
I joined the water aerobics class. I went to the first 3 classes and that was it. It was full of old people that had mobility issues. All they did was make you snap your fingers under water or leg lifts or spinning with noodles. I wanted a real water aerobics class. Very disapointing. I wont waste my money here again.
i do water aerobics in my pool in my back yard...i use to take a class LONG ago while i lived in montana....i do alot of what we did then...i do alot of leg lifts to the sides and fronts...then i do big leg circles and small leg circles fast small ones...flex your foot it helps...i also do what we call leap frogs..i plan to work up to 300 of them..its like sit ups in the pool, but you do them standing up....i know sounds really weird, and will be hard to explain them....but you have to be somewhat close to the deep end where you can jump a little and not go under water.. you jump up, bend at the waist and pull your legs up put soles of feet together if you can get them there when you raise them up to under your butt....hands go down to reach the soles of you feet.....all at the same time....if you can imagine....thats why they are called leap frogs....do a fairly fast pace makes them easier...and not too shallow of water or else you get the impact....jump up and arms go down and feet come up, then stand straight, then do it again...just dont swallow too much water. haha
then i also take the float board and pu**** down like a weight on each side of the arms one arm on each side...push and pull the board in front of my chest....push down with the board in front with both hands...then i use the kick board to sit on and pull myself across the pool and back using only my arms..then i lay on kick board and kick back and forth across the poll
if course this is all done with music, but not necessaly on the beat as some of it is very fast..but i have tons of line dance muisc from my line dance classes and it has a good beat to dance to, so i use it in the pool too...just not a dance routine.i have tried to do some of the line dances in the pool and oh what a difference it makes...
im thinking this is what you were asking as to what we did in the pool...if i am wrong..sorry....
have a great day..
then i also take the float board and pu**** down like a weight on each side of the arms one arm on each side...push and pull the board in front of my chest....push down with the board in front with both hands...then i use the kick board to sit on and pull myself across the pool and back using only my arms..then i lay on kick board and kick back and forth across the poll
if course this is all done with music, but not necessaly on the beat as some of it is very fast..but i have tons of line dance muisc from my line dance classes and it has a good beat to dance to, so i use it in the pool too...just not a dance routine.i have tried to do some of the line dances in the pool and oh what a difference it makes...
im thinking this is what you were asking as to what we did in the pool...if i am wrong..sorry....
have a great day..